NETFLIX Genre: 20th Century Period Pieces

In early 20th-century China, a man schooled in the ways of modern warfare returns from a stay in Japan to unite his splintering country. When his homeland's in trouble, this elite warrior steps up. Welcome to the Chinese Revolution.

Unable to afford the European vacation he'd dreamed of, recent college graduate James Brennan reluctantly takes a summer gig at an amusement park. Summer turns bummer for a seriously uptight Gen-Xer. But a crappy job may be just the thing to loosen him up.

Technical troubles scuttle the Apollo 13 mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew in this chronicle of a true story. The true story of how an early moon mission almost turned into America's first outer space tragedy.

This sci-fi thriller suggests that Apollo 17, despite official statements to the contrary, wasn't NASA's last manned mission to the moon. Three astronauts on a lunar mission discover they're not alone. Now, their only mission is survival.

In 1979, six Americans take shelter from Iranian militants in the Canadian embassy, prompting the CIA to concoct an elaborate plot to rescue them. American hostages are trapped in Iran -- until one CIA agent takes on a mission with a real Hollywood ending.

When a neurologist tests an experimental drug on a catatonic patient, he must come to grips with life as an adult as he awakens from a 30-year coma. Catatonic patients with frozen bodies. His discovery brought them back to life. And they taught him how to live.

This star-studded epic re-creates the 1940 air battle over England, as the Royal Air Force fended off a Nazi attack in the early days of World War II. In 1940, World War II took to the skies. Lives were lost, heroes were made and history changed forever.

This Oscar-winning drama charts the life and work of famed economist John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant man plagued by the anguish of mental illness. A brilliant mathematician suffers from schizophrenic hallucinations. Will he crack up, or crack the code?

A reporter attempts to learn more about his dying father by finding the truth behind a lifetime of his tall tales and legends of epic proportions. He blended fact and fiction his entire life. Now that he's dying, can his son separate the man from the myth?

A beautiful Jewish woman averts Nazi capture, then assumes a new Aryan identity and joins the Dutch resistance movement. No hope of escape. A persecuted woman will change her name, her look, her identity -- and tangle with the enemy.

When U.S. forces attempt to capture two underlings of a Somali warlord, their helicopters are shot down and the Americans suffer heavy casualties. A U.S. military mission to Somalia goes horribly wrong. Without help from above, who will survive on the ground?

This wartime drama details a pivotal day in 1944 when an Allied task force tried to win World War II by seizing control of key bridges in Holland. It was the perfect plan to move the Allies quickly into Germany. But the Germans had plans of their own.

Two sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming become involved in an increasingly passionate affair, but hiding the relationship from their wives proves agonizing. Their love was forbidden. Their passion was real. Their torment took them through a lifetime of joy and bitterness.

During World War II, frail weakling Steve Rogers volunteers for scientific experiments that turn him into Allied super soldier Captain America. A patriot by nature. A soldier by science. A 90-pound weakling becomes a superhero for a nation at war.

This tense and sordid tale chronicles the rise and fall of a casino owner, his friend and Mafia underboss, and an ex-prostitute with expensive taste. The mob made him their man in Vegas. But if they want him to rake in the bucks, they've got to keep him alive.

An FBI agent makes it his mission to put cunning con man Frank Abagnale Jr. behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit. A charming con man plays cat and mouse with an FBI agent. But they may end up needing each other.

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets. OK, so he doesn't break the politician-as-womanizer mold. But this puffy legislator will fight hard ... at great cost.

A British correspondent attempts to save 60 war orphans during Japan's occupation of China in the 1930s, leading the kids across hundreds of miles. A reporter in 1930s China learns about war and courage. A communist, an aristocrat and 60 orphans are his teachers.

A single mother and her young daughter move into a peaceful French village and open an unusual chocolate shop during the height of Lent. A town forgotten by love's sweetness. A wise stranger with a lush passion. To embrace life, they just need one taste.

This crime drama based on true events profiles a WWII vet's frustrations and eventual transformation into an eccentric bank robber in Toronto. A family man with a Hollywood itch turns to crime to support his family. Surprise -- the media love him.